The Wake announces new acts for July event

The Wake announces new acts for July event

Baggio, Dominie Hooper and Kodiak Island among those playing

April 16, 2024

By Dom Gourlay

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Jo Bartlett and Danny Hagan are excited to announce a second stage and confirm the latest additions to their inaugural festival.The awakening. To accompany it, they've curated a Spotify playlist for the event which you can listen to here:

In addition to Gruff Rhys, Domino's One True Pairing (Tom Fleming from Wild Beasts), Bella Union artist Emma Tricca, with echoes of 70s acid folk rock, a very rare live appearance from Mat Flint (Heavenly Social, Revolver, Death In Vegas ), psychedelic shoegaze act HOO (featuring Mojave 3's Ian McCutcheon) and three-piece pastoral folk collective Gymkhana (featuring Patch from The Sundays and Jason from Bennet) Jo and Danny are in pleased to reveal a series of new acts such as BaggioDominie Hooper, Kodiak Island and Roselynd.

“When we released the 2005 Green Man movie a few months ago, a fellow named Ned dropped me a line. He was surprised to see himself in the film as he had attended the festival as a 9-year-old boy. He was so excited to start learning to play guitar and now has a band, South London's Silver Jews influenced alt-country collective Baggio, that we're delighted to be opening our new event.” says festival curator Jo Bartlett.

Joining Baggio is Jo's five-piece psych band,Kodiak Island who will execute them The Amber Road The full album for the first time, the enigmatic and haunting Roselynd and the eerie folk soundscape of Dominie Hooper, whose latest single was produced by This Is The Kit's Kate Stable and described as 'brilliant' by 6Music's Gideon Coe.

DJ sets are confirmed by Richard Norris (The Grid) and Billy Campbell (Names Records), while Richard Norris will also read from White Rabbit's forthcoming autobiography, 'Strange Things Are Happening', on the Talks Stage.

John Andrews (Caught By The River) will be hosting Talks Satge where, along with Richard Norris, we are delighted to announce Daniel Rachel, who will be talking about his book 'Too Much Too Young' his story 2 Tone, published by White Rabbit. Daniel will also play a 2 Tone DJ set.

The Wake hosts Jo & Danny will also attempt to squeeze as many of the indie records they love and have inspired from the early 1980s to the present day into their own DJ set.

Wake takes place on Saturday 27 July 2024 and will be an intimate one-day event of music, literature, street food and craft beer with local independent microbrewery Langham manning the bar.

The beautiful woodland site is located near Billingshurst in West Sussex RH14 0AL. Gates will open at noon and the fun will start at 1pm and end around 10pm. Free parking is available on site.

More acts to be announced soon.